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W. F. DUGINS. TOBACCO PIPE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. l, 1904.

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WILLIAM FRANCIS DUGINS, OF KEV, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA.

TOBACCO-PIPE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 22, 1906.

Application filed November 1,1904. Serial No. 230,965.

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Be it known that I, WILLIAM FRANCIS DUGINs, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing in Peel street, Kew, in the State of Victoria, Australia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tobacco-Pipes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention provides an attachment for tobacco-pipes for cutting the tobacco. The cutter may be connected with the cap of pipe or with the shank or stem by a band or otherwise. In some cases the in this way will fall directly into the pipebowl or into the hand of the user, according to the design.

In order that my invention may be the better understood, reference may be made to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan showing my improvements fitted upon the top pipe. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an end view of Fig. 1, while Figa shows a detail view of the cutting-knives shown onFigs. 1 and 2. Fig. 5 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the invention.

In the drawings, Arepresents a metal cappiece provided with hinges A and clip-piece A2. This cap-piece hinges onto a plate A3, fixed on the top of bowl of the pipe B. On the metal cap-piece A are surmounted two lugs or plates C, in which transverse rollers D are centered, so as to revolve freely. A knife or knives E, preferably having two blades E and E2 and formed of a U shape, are passed through one of the lugs and across and into the opposite lug. For this purpose the ends E3 of the knives E and E2 (see Fig. 4) are reduced, so as to spring or tightly fit into the perforations in the opposite lug-plate.

It will be seenfrom the drawings when the U shaped knives are set in position their edges will beA parallel with but slightly above the level of the rollers D. (See Figs. 1 and 3.) The distance between the knife-edges and the top of the roller will be the thickness of the tobacco when same has been cut and has fallen through into the pipe.

The capiece A has open grooves underneath each vmife-edge and roller, so that the tobacco that is out Y of the bowl of a tobacco cut by such knife-edges will be directed by the roller into such open slot and will fall into the bowl of the pipe B.

In operation the bowl of the pipe is held firmly in the right hand between the forefinger and thumb of the smoker, the plug of tobacco is held iirmly by the left hand, and the knife-edges and rollers are then scraped or drawn firmly and with pressure under the tobacco-plug, the right thumb also forcing the plug forward, somewhat after the manner of a spokeshave at work upon a piece of wood. This action will cause the knife-edges to slice or shave the tobacco, so that it will fall into the bowl of the pipe.

When the bowl is filled with such cut tobacco, the cap may be lifted on its hinges into the dotted position shown in Fig. 2, the tobacco pressed down by the foreiinger and lighted in the usual way, and the cap replaced.

It will be noticed in Fig. i that the U- shape double knife E may be drawn out from the lugs or plates C and sharpened by any suitable means.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A pipe having a cap-piece provided with openings and knives and rollers arranged on said cap-piece over said openings substantially as described.

2. A pipe having a cap-piece hinged thereto, said cap-piece having openings therein and aknife and roller arranged on said piece over said openings, substantially as described.

3. A pipe having a cap-piece provided with openings, lugs on said piece, knives and rollers carried in said lugs and arranged over the openings in the cap-piece and means for securing the cap-piece to the pipe, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses WILLIAM FRANCIS DUGINs.

Witnesses A. I-IARKER, A. Y. MADDEN. 

